The
weather did not cooperate with us for our first meet of 2010! Instead of
the sunny spring day we had hoped for, we had chilly, blustery winds all
morning, turning into rain before noon. That translated into poor
participation, unfortunately.

Marsha
Jacobs created a very fun Score-O course that took people all over
campus to try to find the 35 control circles in 60 minutes. There were
no controls out; participants had to answer a multiple-choice question
about something they found in the center of the circle. Some questions
were tricky and you had to carefully read and choices! If you were
wrong, you lost a point, as you can see from the results below. Also, if
you came back late, you also lost a point for every minute or portion of
a minute.

Only
one person made it to all 35 controls; you had to be moving quickly and
accurately to make them all. Dan Rathbun had the only perfect score and
it only took him 42:37. Several others came quite close. Stephan
Harrison of BAOC found 34, but lost a point for a wrong answer.

I
wish to give hearty thanks to my stalwart (and warmly dressed) crew of
Marsha at registration, Stew Hintz at starts and Dave Takacs at
finishes. We were all glad, given the weather, that no controls were out
there, since that meant no control pickup in the rain!